WEBVTT 00:00:16.379 --> 00:00:18.519 motherhood where sleep is a rumor and laundry 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.280 is eternal and somehow we're supposed to be raising 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:23.899 tiny humans through it all we're here to laugh 00:00:23.899 --> 00:00:26.859 at the chaos cry when necessary and remind you 00:00:26.859 --> 00:00:28.940 that none of us actually know what we're doing 00:00:28.940 --> 00:00:32.100 this is no manual a mom cast your mom friend 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:34.969 group chat but with microphones. Welcome back 00:00:34.969 --> 00:00:38.390 to No Manual on MomCast. Today we're going to 00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:40.469 just have a fun Christmas episode. It's Christmas 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:43.009 season. We're both super excited for Christmas. 00:00:43.509 --> 00:00:46.590 And actually before we like really get started. 00:00:47.369 --> 00:00:49.469 We will, after this episode, we're going to have 00:00:49.469 --> 00:00:51.890 two weeks off. So we'll have the week of Christmas 00:00:51.890 --> 00:00:54.509 off and the week of New Year's off for, you know, 00:00:54.509 --> 00:00:56.229 we obviously want to celebrate with our families. 00:00:56.549 --> 00:00:59.689 Yeah. You guys are probably celebrating with 00:00:59.689 --> 00:01:01.329 your families and not listening to podcasts anyways. 00:01:02.210 --> 00:01:04.950 I hope so. So, yeah, so we'll have two weeks 00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:09.689 off, 22nd and the 30th of December. We will not 00:01:09.689 --> 00:01:13.599 have episodes. But before that, we're just going 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.040 to talk Christmas and things we're excited for 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.780 this year, traditions, all that. Do you want 00:01:19.780 --> 00:01:21.900 to start with your mom moment? I would love to. 00:01:21.980 --> 00:01:27.379 So this last week, we went to the church while 00:01:27.379 --> 00:01:31.140 Michael was doing youth group. And I posted this 00:01:31.140 --> 00:01:34.180 on Instagram. So Colt was playing on the playground, 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.540 and he... It was great. We were having a great 00:01:37.540 --> 00:01:39.159 time. He wanted me to go up in the playground 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.200 with him. So I did. Michael was holding Cruz. 00:01:42.140 --> 00:01:46.180 And there's like these poles inside the playground. 00:01:46.459 --> 00:01:49.079 They're like padded poles. It's like an old school 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:53.359 play place. Yeah. Yeah. And it wasn't even that 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:58.120 hard. But Colt like tripped into the pole and 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:01.319 just like hit his head on the pole. And like 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:04.459 the sound that it made, it was like a solid bonk. 00:02:05.310 --> 00:02:08.650 Like a cartoon. Yeah. And I knew right when I 00:02:08.650 --> 00:02:11.509 heard that, I was like, oh my gosh, he's going 00:02:11.509 --> 00:02:13.330 to start bleeding. He's going to be bleeding. 00:02:13.810 --> 00:02:16.830 And I look at him and he's not bleeding. And 00:02:16.830 --> 00:02:21.650 then I look and he chipped his tooth so badly. 00:02:21.909 --> 00:02:24.370 Like his front tooth is literally like half a 00:02:24.370 --> 00:02:27.620 tooth now. And he like, he cried for maybe 30 00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:30.139 seconds and then was totally fine. Of course. 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.780 Of course. And I like, I don't know why this 00:02:32.780 --> 00:02:35.979 is affecting me so much, but like, it's just 00:02:35.979 --> 00:02:38.759 his baby tooth. It's whatever. But the fact that 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.139 his smile changed in like an instant, it makes 00:02:43.139 --> 00:02:45.840 me so sad because I'm like, I will never see 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.960 his smile again with his, his like beautiful 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:53.250 teeth. And now he's just got like this dagger 00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:56.150 of a tooth that like it's so sharp right now. 00:02:56.250 --> 00:02:58.569 I saw the picture. It looks gnarly. Yeah. And 00:02:58.569 --> 00:03:02.750 it just like made me so sad. And I know it's 00:03:02.750 --> 00:03:05.969 not that big of a deal. But so I ended up calling 00:03:05.969 --> 00:03:09.090 the dentist because I was like, I. What are we 00:03:09.090 --> 00:03:11.389 supposed to do? Yeah. Do we need to come like 00:03:11.389 --> 00:03:15.370 get this like filed down? Do you need to look 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:18.050 at it? And it's not like bothering Colt at all. 00:03:18.069 --> 00:03:21.240 Like because anytime. I don't know. Anytime you 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.460 have a cavity or whatever, it's like you take 00:03:23.460 --> 00:03:25.500 a drink of water and it's like sensitive. Right. 00:03:25.659 --> 00:03:28.860 So we were nervous about that. But he doesn't 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:31.159 seem to have any like weird sensations like that 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.139 or anything. And he's eating fine. The one thing 00:03:34.139 --> 00:03:36.139 I'm really worried about is like if he falls 00:03:36.139 --> 00:03:39.259 again and is like he like hits his tooth on his 00:03:39.259 --> 00:03:40.560 lip. It's just going to break the whole tooth. 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:43.000 Yeah. Either break the tooth or cut his lip open 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.169 because of how sharp it is. And so I called the 00:03:46.169 --> 00:03:48.210 dentist and the dentist was like, let's just 00:03:48.210 --> 00:03:51.610 kind of like see what happens. Cause a lot of 00:03:51.610 --> 00:03:54.330 the times, like the tooth ends up dying. So it's 00:03:54.330 --> 00:03:56.370 going to turn like, yeah, you have to pull it 00:03:56.370 --> 00:03:59.729 out. So I'm like, if we have to do that, he's 00:03:59.729 --> 00:04:01.449 going to be two years old with no tooth. He's 00:04:01.449 --> 00:04:03.430 probably not going to even get his adult tooth 00:04:03.430 --> 00:04:05.889 until he's like six or seven. And then he's just 00:04:05.889 --> 00:04:09.969 for years. I mean, it'll be super cute. It'll 00:04:09.969 --> 00:04:13.729 be cute, but. gosh it I don't know why it's like 00:04:13.729 --> 00:04:17.529 making me so sad and it's really not that big 00:04:17.529 --> 00:04:21.709 of a deal he does not care at all but I do I 00:04:21.709 --> 00:04:24.670 feel like I'm like when parent other parents 00:04:24.670 --> 00:04:26.930 see my child and he smiles and he has just this 00:04:26.930 --> 00:04:29.170 like chip tooth that they're gonna be like oh 00:04:29.170 --> 00:04:32.410 they live in the trailer park and you know just 00:04:32.410 --> 00:04:36.970 but it's not the case but I just I yeah I don't 00:04:36.970 --> 00:04:39.720 know It makes me sad. I think once we were going 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.819 out to California this week and I'm like, I think 00:04:42.819 --> 00:04:44.980 I will make a dentist appointment when we get 00:04:44.980 --> 00:04:47.500 back to at least get it filed down a little bit. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:51.139 Cause it is so sharp. That makes sense. Yeah. 00:04:51.259 --> 00:04:55.279 So that's a fun moment. Yeah. And of course I 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:57.259 was blaming myself of like, of course. Yeah. 00:04:57.339 --> 00:04:59.480 Why did we even go to youth group that night? 00:04:59.579 --> 00:05:01.279 I shouldn't have let him play on the playground 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:05.399 for then. Like, yep. That's always how it goes. 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:09.040 Yep. How about you? Mine is that Zeta's going 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:14.319 through the worst sleep regression. So terrible. 00:05:14.660 --> 00:05:18.230 It's so rough. I think she's learning a bunch 00:05:18.230 --> 00:05:20.629 of things. So she, she's been like army crawling 00:05:20.629 --> 00:05:23.389 for a while now, but she's finally just like 00:05:23.389 --> 00:05:25.730 getting up on her knees and crawling. She's pulling 00:05:25.730 --> 00:05:27.910 herself up. Actually, this is a side tangent, 00:05:28.009 --> 00:05:29.970 but I'm going to say it anyways. She had her 00:05:29.970 --> 00:05:32.069 nine month appointment and we like filled out 00:05:32.069 --> 00:05:34.069 the questionnaire of her development and she 00:05:34.069 --> 00:05:36.170 was doing great with everything except for gross 00:05:36.170 --> 00:05:37.949 motor skills. And they're like, we expect that 00:05:37.949 --> 00:05:40.050 she should be like pulling herself up and cruising 00:05:40.050 --> 00:05:43.050 right now. Okay. And she's not. Um, and my doctor 00:05:43.050 --> 00:05:45.810 was like, you know, we're not worried right now. 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:49.180 she's doing really great if by like 11 months 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:52.019 she's not doing these things call us because 00:05:52.019 --> 00:05:54.579 we just want to make sure like yeah nothing's 00:05:54.579 --> 00:05:58.560 going on yep i kid you not that afternoon she 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.839 was like oh i can pull myself up now i can do 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.180 it so she just needed to hear that she's supposed 00:06:03.180 --> 00:06:05.500 to be doing this i guess we like well now i gotta 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:07.899 call the doctor yeah i was like do i take a video 00:06:07.899 --> 00:06:10.939 and send this to him and like so this literally 00:06:10.939 --> 00:06:14.120 just happened yeah but anyways yeah she's just 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.620 learning all the things like yeah so i think 00:06:17.620 --> 00:06:20.500 that's what's causing it but it's also any sleep 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:23.180 regressions that's affecting like literally everything 00:06:23.180 --> 00:06:26.819 it's so terrible she's fighting naps and then 00:06:26.819 --> 00:06:28.579 she takes short naps it's like the other day 00:06:28.579 --> 00:06:30.540 it took me half an hour to get her down for a 00:06:30.540 --> 00:06:33.480 nap that lasted half an hour and then i like 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.259 couldn't get her back to sleep so it's like that 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.899 That almost felt worthless. Yes. And then since 00:06:39.899 --> 00:06:42.420 her and Lloyd share a room frequently, she's 00:06:42.420 --> 00:06:45.519 waking him up from naps. So then everyone's overtired 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:49.699 and mad. She is fighting bedtime. She's waking 00:06:49.699 --> 00:06:53.439 up more at night. Frequently at night. Not every 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.720 time. But when she wakes up, she's also having 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.339 a harder time going back down. It's not just 00:06:58.339 --> 00:07:01.420 like, okay, nurse, and then back to sleep. Because 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:03.829 that, like... I don't like waking up multiple 00:07:03.829 --> 00:07:05.629 times a night, but if that's the case, like, 00:07:05.670 --> 00:07:08.230 I can deal. It's the, like, trying to get her 00:07:08.230 --> 00:07:09.930 back to sleep when she's, like, doesn't want 00:07:09.930 --> 00:07:13.649 to. Yeah. She's waking up at 6 a .m. pretty much 00:07:13.649 --> 00:07:16.350 every single day. Yeah. Which means I have, like, 00:07:16.449 --> 00:07:20.600 most days the kids wake. up at like 7 or 7 30 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.439 and I wake up at like 6 or 6 30 so then I have 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.699 like a couple minutes a little bit of time like 00:07:25.699 --> 00:07:27.779 especially on a work day yeah like to just like 00:07:27.779 --> 00:07:30.519 get my day started get my work day started have 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.879 like 30 seconds to just like breathe and like 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.560 prepare but it's like nope I'm like in my pajamas 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.279 I'm not even haven't even brushed my teeth and 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:40.660 she's wide awake and I'm trying to get her up 00:07:40.660 --> 00:07:42.879 so she doesn't wake Lloyd up so that way hopefully 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:46.040 only one kid's overtired instead of two that's 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.870 so tough with the sharing the room Like that's 00:07:48.870 --> 00:07:51.730 such a beneficial thing. I think you'll see in 00:07:51.730 --> 00:07:55.290 like a year from now. And when it's going, like 00:07:55.290 --> 00:07:57.410 for them sharing a room, when it goes well, it 00:07:57.410 --> 00:07:59.610 goes really well. Like they seem to like sharing 00:07:59.610 --> 00:08:04.269 a room. And I think it does generally help her 00:08:04.269 --> 00:08:06.089 sleep, help both of them sleep better to like 00:08:06.089 --> 00:08:08.709 be close to their sibling. But it's just when 00:08:08.709 --> 00:08:11.629 one of them wakes up upset, it wakes up the other 00:08:11.629 --> 00:08:16.019 one and then it's a disaster. it's just it's 00:08:16.019 --> 00:08:18.319 a rough super fun hopefully it will be a quick 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.360 sleep regression and yeah you guys can get back 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:25.740 to sleep yeah and also i don't get naps no that's 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:27.879 the hardest part like if i could take naps then 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.620 maybe it'd be okay but then and then i always 00:08:30.620 --> 00:08:32.620 feel super guilty when i'm frustrated that she 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:35.320 won't sleep yeah i'm like i just need like i 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.679 need to catch up on my emails uh -huh i know 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.659 that's so tough it's like you're literally holding 00:08:41.659 --> 00:08:44.179 a baby and typing emails with one hand yep i've 00:08:44.179 --> 00:08:46.740 done that many times yeah and i'm like i could 00:08:46.740 --> 00:08:48.960 type this so much faster if i could just set 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.799 you down for a second yep ah these are the good 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:55.419 old days we're gonna miss them yeah okay so um 00:08:55.419 --> 00:08:59.399 this is our fun christmas episode yeah um talking 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:02.960 about christmas traditions what are some like 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.740 maybe traditions that you grew up with that you 00:09:05.740 --> 00:09:09.460 want to implement into into your kids childhood 00:09:10.299 --> 00:09:12.399 So we always decorated for Christmas on Black 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.639 Friday. Fun. And that's something that we're 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.360 going to continue. And I know I always felt like 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:19.620 it was such a fun day decorating for Christmas. 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:23.120 Did you guys do anything else along with it? 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.039 Like Christmas music in the background? Yeah. 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.679 So it was like the first day we'd do Christmas 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:32.279 music. And we had speakers. We had like a living 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.360 room and a family room. And we had speakers in 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.279 both so we could play music throughout the whole 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.470 house. Which also I feel like makes it sound 00:09:39.470 --> 00:09:41.330 like I grew up super rich for that being like 00:09:41.330 --> 00:09:43.769 the 90s. But that's not the case. But the speakers 00:09:43.769 --> 00:09:48.450 could play the same song. So yeah, we would like 00:09:48.450 --> 00:09:50.230 put on Christmas music throughout the house. 00:09:50.769 --> 00:09:54.269 And then since we had two living spaces, we also 00:09:54.269 --> 00:09:58.250 had two trees. So we had one that was like, we 00:09:58.250 --> 00:10:00.110 called it my mom's tree. But that was because 00:10:00.110 --> 00:10:01.789 that's where like all the breakable ornaments 00:10:01.789 --> 00:10:04.029 pretty much went. And it was like white lights 00:10:04.029 --> 00:10:06.750 and... Kind of like the prettier tree, I guess. 00:10:07.009 --> 00:10:09.450 And then the one in the living room was like 00:10:09.450 --> 00:10:11.330 the family tree. So it was colored lights and 00:10:11.330 --> 00:10:12.929 it was all the ornaments. All the kids ornaments. 00:10:13.169 --> 00:10:15.169 Yeah. All the like, you know, the ones that you 00:10:15.169 --> 00:10:16.889 make and the ones that we get every year that 00:10:16.889 --> 00:10:19.110 are like kind of funny. And that's where the 00:10:19.110 --> 00:10:21.250 presents would end up too. Nice. But yeah, I 00:10:21.250 --> 00:10:22.850 remember decorating for Christmas just being 00:10:22.850 --> 00:10:27.500 like. an event and so fun um and so i want that 00:10:27.500 --> 00:10:29.440 to be a thing right now it's i feel like the 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:31.059 first few years it's just kind of stressful because 00:10:31.059 --> 00:10:33.259 it's just like stewart and i while also trying 00:10:33.259 --> 00:10:36.080 to manage kids yes um like maybe when they're 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:39.399 like three four yeah like the traditions will 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:42.039 kind of like yeah they like start to care about 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:44.580 these yeah yeah so that's like a big one for 00:10:44.580 --> 00:10:46.480 us or like one of the things that i remember 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.120 most i guess is like yep that was super fun yeah 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:52.179 And that's something I definitely want to continue 00:10:52.179 --> 00:10:55.200 is like, I love that. What about you guys? So 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.480 one that I grew up with, I think I've talked 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:00.940 about it before. So we would always all sleep 00:11:00.940 --> 00:11:04.379 in the same room on Christmas Eve. I don't think 00:11:04.379 --> 00:11:06.480 we're going to do that this year. I still feel 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.139 like my kids are too young to really do that. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.399 But as they get older, I love this idea because 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.059 it was like, in my parents' mind, it was we all 00:11:15.059 --> 00:11:17.809 had to stay in the same room because. because 00:11:17.809 --> 00:11:20.210 they didn't want us to go out of the room early 00:11:20.210 --> 00:11:23.190 and open up all the gifts. And that was like 00:11:23.190 --> 00:11:25.490 the idea behind it. But it was really like just 00:11:25.490 --> 00:11:28.789 a special, like we all got to sleep in the same 00:11:28.789 --> 00:11:30.990 room and we were all excited for Santa to come. 00:11:31.090 --> 00:11:33.490 I feel like there's so many traditions that like 00:11:33.490 --> 00:11:36.169 as a parent, like as a kid, you're like, oh my 00:11:36.169 --> 00:11:38.049 gosh, this is so fun. And then now as a parent, 00:11:38.070 --> 00:11:40.889 I'm like, oh, I see. There was actually a hidden 00:11:40.889 --> 00:11:43.289 message in this. Pizza Friday was because you 00:11:43.289 --> 00:11:45.830 couldn't manage to think or cook. Yeah. Got it. 00:11:45.850 --> 00:11:48.009 That wasn't just a fun tradition. Yes. Yeah. 00:11:48.090 --> 00:11:50.350 But then as a kid, you're like, this was so, 00:11:50.350 --> 00:11:53.889 so special. It really was. And each year, so 00:11:53.889 --> 00:11:59.149 it was. Me and I have three siblings, but we 00:11:59.149 --> 00:12:01.309 would trade off who got to sleep in my parents' 00:12:01.450 --> 00:12:04.889 bed. So it was me and my sister one year, and 00:12:04.889 --> 00:12:06.610 then my brothers would be on the ground, and 00:12:06.610 --> 00:12:08.549 then the opposite year we would flip, and then 00:12:08.549 --> 00:12:10.950 it would be my brothers. And then my mom and 00:12:10.950 --> 00:12:14.309 my stepdad would basically just guard the bedroom 00:12:14.309 --> 00:12:17.070 door so they'd be on the ground just making sure 00:12:17.070 --> 00:12:20.049 we didn't go out. So that was always super fun. 00:12:20.190 --> 00:12:22.570 And then another thing we did, so we would always 00:12:22.570 --> 00:12:25.149 do like cookie decorating. And we still do this 00:12:25.149 --> 00:12:29.049 like as a big family. But we would, yeah, do 00:12:29.049 --> 00:12:31.690 cookie decorating. And we would, honestly, we 00:12:31.690 --> 00:12:34.169 would probably do it like two weeks before Christmas. 00:12:34.389 --> 00:12:37.570 I know. And like all the frosting and everything. 00:12:37.690 --> 00:12:39.429 And then those were the cookies we'd leave out 00:12:39.429 --> 00:12:43.129 for Santa. Okay. Which. It's so gross because 00:12:43.129 --> 00:12:46.149 those cookies were probably so stale by then. 00:12:46.309 --> 00:12:49.289 But it's fun because last year was like the first 00:12:49.289 --> 00:12:52.649 year that Colt got to do that with us as a family. 00:12:52.769 --> 00:12:55.590 And now when we go back to California again for 00:12:55.590 --> 00:12:57.570 Christmas, we'll get to do that all as a family 00:12:57.570 --> 00:13:00.129 again. And that's just, it's super fun to see 00:13:00.129 --> 00:13:03.490 him like, I don't know, start to pick up on these 00:13:03.490 --> 00:13:06.070 traditions a little bit. The last few years, 00:13:06.070 --> 00:13:09.259 this isn't like an old tradition, but. my mom, 00:13:09.259 --> 00:13:11.460 my mother -in -law, me and my sister -in -law 00:13:11.460 --> 00:13:13.320 have gotten together and we don't decorate cookies, 00:13:13.419 --> 00:13:15.600 but we all like come with our own cookie dough. 00:13:15.980 --> 00:13:17.600 And so we like tell each other what we're going 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:19.399 to make. So we don't have all the same cookies. 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.340 And it's like, someone makes like peppermint 00:13:21.340 --> 00:13:23.960 chip cookies and someone makes sugar cookies 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.120 or whatever. Um, and then we all just like get 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:29.200 together and bake them. That's fun. So it's not 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.440 decorating, but it's kind of just like, and then 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:33.299 we like trade cookies. So we all have like a 00:13:33.299 --> 00:13:36.059 little bit of each kind. Yes. So that's fun. 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.419 That's super fun. Yeah, I am excited. I'm really 00:13:39.419 --> 00:13:41.519 excited because I feel like this year, like, 00:13:41.539 --> 00:13:44.539 Cole is kind of, like, starting to catch on. 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.580 Like, oh, Christmas. Like, we just decorated 00:13:46.580 --> 00:13:48.899 for Christmas. We're recording this a little 00:13:48.899 --> 00:13:51.940 bit early. But, yeah, we just decorated for Christmas. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.820 And, like, he walked down the stairs one morning 00:13:55.820 --> 00:13:57.360 and it was all decorated because I did it at 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.279 night. And he was like, Christmas. And I was 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.000 like, oh. this year's gonna be so fun like doing 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:06.440 like i want to go um look at christmas sites 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:10.100 yeah maybe do like um in denver they have like 00:14:10.100 --> 00:14:13.399 a polar express train that you can like go on 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:16.960 and like experience the polar express and i'm 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.159 like maybe we'll do that like i'm just excited 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:23.440 to do the christmas activities and like i think 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.940 it will be so much more fun to kind of like view 00:14:25.940 --> 00:14:29.120 it from like the lens like through his eyes and 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.360 like we get to make it magical for them. Yeah. 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.840 So fun. That is so fun. Like what was the thing 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:39.059 we said today? He was like, Oh, he was like having 00:14:39.059 --> 00:14:42.100 a tantrum in the store. And, um, so we like went 00:14:42.100 --> 00:14:44.940 out to the car and then he has like this play 00:14:44.940 --> 00:14:48.379 phone and Michael like pretended to call someone 00:14:48.379 --> 00:14:51.840 and was like, Oh hello Santa. Oh yeah. Colt's 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.419 on the naughty list right now. And I was like, 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.779 Oh my gosh, this is. This is fun for me to like 00:14:57.779 --> 00:15:01.659 start to, I don't know, see Christmas in a different 00:15:01.659 --> 00:15:05.879 light with kids now again. Yeah. Do you have 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.539 any traditions that you like want to start or 00:15:09.539 --> 00:15:11.460 like maybe you've already kind of started? No, 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.659 I don't think we've necessarily started anything. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:17.360 I think it's harder because there's so many like 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:21.620 things that my family would do like either the 00:15:21.620 --> 00:15:24.830 night. you know day before christmas or day of 00:15:24.830 --> 00:15:28.509 christmas and now like we're pretty much we go 00:15:28.509 --> 00:15:31.690 and we travel for so we're like we're with our 00:15:31.690 --> 00:15:33.570 families but we're not doing like necessarily 00:15:33.570 --> 00:15:37.269 christmas with just like the four of us um we 00:15:37.269 --> 00:15:39.210 probably will do something like a few days before 00:15:39.210 --> 00:15:43.750 we travel out but yeah i i honestly haven't thought 00:15:43.750 --> 00:15:46.289 that one through a lot of what i want to start 00:15:46.289 --> 00:15:50.940 but i think we will as as time goes on Yeah. 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:53.879 What about you guys? So we do matching pajamas. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.840 Oh, yes. Okay. Yeah. Which also Old Navy is the 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:59.320 only place to go for that. Yeah. Partially because 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.159 every other time I've looked someplace in the 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.980 Old Navy for like one pair of pajamas, it's the 00:16:05.980 --> 00:16:08.580 same price as getting the whole family's pajamas. 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:10.519 Yeah. Like I can get everyone's pajamas for like 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.639 40 bucks or something like that. And then it's 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.009 like 70 or something. Why is it $75 for a pair 00:16:16.009 --> 00:16:19.409 of pajamas, a pair of baby pajamas? So that's 00:16:19.409 --> 00:16:22.429 a fun one. And then we actually do Christmas 00:16:22.429 --> 00:16:26.769 early. So for us, and this started before we 00:16:26.769 --> 00:16:30.350 had kids, our families get together on Christmas. 00:16:30.389 --> 00:16:32.210 Like my parents and Stuart's parents usually 00:16:32.210 --> 00:16:34.669 get together on Christmas. And we also like split. 00:16:34.730 --> 00:16:37.580 So it's like. Christmas day we spend the morning 00:16:37.580 --> 00:16:39.919 with my parents usually sometime in the afternoon 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.659 with Stuart's family and then the evening everyone 00:16:43.659 --> 00:16:46.440 gets together for dinner oh nice and we love 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:48.179 that and it's super fun but we're like we also 00:16:48.179 --> 00:16:51.220 want to do something just our family so what 00:16:51.220 --> 00:16:54.759 we started doing is starting is we do Christmas 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:57.519 the day before so it's like oh nice the 23rd 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:59.860 is like our Christmas Eve where we open pajamas 00:16:59.860 --> 00:17:03.279 and like maybe watch a movie or something and 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.220 then the 24th we like like get up and do the 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:08.259 whole Christmas thing with presents and some 00:17:08.259 --> 00:17:11.440 kind of sugary breakfast. Like last year we did 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.960 cinnamon rolls. My mom usually makes monkey bread. 00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:17.339 So that's one of the things that we've done is 00:17:17.339 --> 00:17:19.539 like, okay, we know that Christmas day is going 00:17:19.539 --> 00:17:20.880 to be crazy and we're going to be seeing lots 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.480 of family. So we're going to like carve out this 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.619 time for just you guys. Yeah. Where it's less 00:17:25.619 --> 00:17:28.559 rushed and we can just like have fun and play 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.440 with new toys and stuff like that. That's so 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.160 special. One of my favorite things was, like, 00:17:33.180 --> 00:17:35.519 the slow mornings at home. Like, after presents 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:39.160 were opened. Yeah. Everyone's in a little bit 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.000 of a sugar coma. Yeah. And we were all just, 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:44.339 like, as kids, we were just, like, playing with 00:17:44.339 --> 00:17:45.940 the new toys. And, like, we were all playing 00:17:45.940 --> 00:17:48.119 with different things. And that just was so fun. 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.880 The hard part for us, like, that we're still 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:52.940 trying to navigate is both Michael and I work 00:17:52.940 --> 00:17:55.380 in the church. Right. And so, like, Christmas 00:17:55.380 --> 00:17:59.380 Eve services. are a big thing. And so like this, 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:01.900 this year we have six Christmas Eve services. 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:05.240 They're not on Christmas Eve, but they're the 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:07.799 weekend before Christmas. Yeah. And so like. 00:18:08.220 --> 00:18:10.759 that is just a super busy season. And I feel 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.700 like we can't be as present with our family. 00:18:12.819 --> 00:18:15.539 Like it's, we're present with our family, but 00:18:15.539 --> 00:18:17.920 we're at church and like our kids are in kids' 00:18:17.980 --> 00:18:21.599 men for six services. Like it's crazy. It's crazy. 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:24.539 And so I really, I do need to look at the calendar 00:18:24.539 --> 00:18:27.400 cause it is so special. Like just having the, 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:31.000 that like Christmas morning experience with just 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.420 like just us. And I, I want to carve out that 00:18:34.420 --> 00:18:38.339 time. Yeah. Like last year you left Christmas 00:18:38.339 --> 00:18:40.859 services to get on a plane. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So 00:18:40.859 --> 00:18:42.240 you're probably doing something similar. Yeah. 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:44.880 Thankfully we're like, so Christmas Eve services 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.579 are on the 19th, 20th and 21st this year. And 00:18:48.579 --> 00:18:52.859 then we are flying out the 22nd. Okay. So Monday, 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:55.500 but I'm like, okay, we could do Christmas on 00:18:55.500 --> 00:18:59.000 like the. 18th or something like that but that 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.819 feels so like that's like a week yeah yeah and 00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:05.640 so i don't know we'll or you can do it you could 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.720 do like three kings day what's that it's january 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:13.599 6th it's a pretty traditional thing in like catholic 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:17.359 culture so it's supposedly like the day that 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:20.480 the wise men showed up to jesus or something 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:22.839 okay yeah yeah um i think it's where the tradition 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:24.819 they actually didn't travel there in a day it 00:19:24.819 --> 00:19:28.440 took them yeah yeah so it's supposed to be like 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:32.440 kind of celebrating that and i know in places 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:36.549 like italy where there's a very like high catholic 00:19:36.549 --> 00:19:38.650 catholicism is very impactful in the culture 00:19:38.650 --> 00:19:41.450 yeah like everything shuts down yeah but people 00:19:41.450 --> 00:19:44.029 like this is one thing about america is like 00:19:44.029 --> 00:19:46.349 it's like christmas is the 25th and then it's 00:19:46.349 --> 00:19:49.529 gone kind of where i know in a lot of places 00:19:49.529 --> 00:19:52.130 in europe specifically christmas is celebrated 00:19:52.130 --> 00:19:56.170 until three kings oh wow yeah and yeah so you 00:19:56.170 --> 00:19:58.750 can do like that that's fun i know yeah because 00:19:58.750 --> 00:20:01.990 i'm like the thing is is With us living in a 00:20:01.990 --> 00:20:03.769 different state, a lot of family will, like, 00:20:03.769 --> 00:20:07.049 mail us presents for the boys. Right. And so, 00:20:07.130 --> 00:20:10.390 like, I already have, like, a hidden pile somewhere 00:20:10.390 --> 00:20:13.130 of presents that I need to wrap. And I don't 00:20:13.130 --> 00:20:14.829 know. Yeah, I don't know how we're going to do 00:20:14.829 --> 00:20:17.170 it exactly. But we do, like, we'll do the matching 00:20:17.170 --> 00:20:20.130 pajamas, but we do that in California. The other 00:20:20.130 --> 00:20:21.910 thing that's super fun that Michael's family 00:20:21.910 --> 00:20:25.299 grew up doing that now we. do all together is 00:20:25.299 --> 00:20:29.099 pizza and elf so we we all get matching pajamas 00:20:29.099 --> 00:20:31.960 so the entire family has matching pajamas we 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:34.980 eat pizza and we watch elf and that's like the 00:20:34.980 --> 00:20:38.240 extent of it and it's so fun everyone looks forward 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:42.279 to every year and that was like a youth group 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:45.240 event that michael grew up doing and then they 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:47.579 would like pause the movie halfway through and 00:20:47.579 --> 00:20:51.680 eat the spaghetti that buddy eats with all the 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.200 candy and yuckiness, which it's not surprisingly 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.299 not as terrible as you would think. It's just 00:20:57.299 --> 00:20:59.960 like, it's just, yeah, it's plain noodles and 00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:03.779 then just like chocolate syrup. Yeah. Marshmallows, 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:08.619 M &M's, blah, blah, blah. And so he grew up doing 00:21:08.619 --> 00:21:10.420 that event. And then I think his family just 00:21:10.420 --> 00:21:13.500 like kind of started doing it too. And so that's 00:21:13.500 --> 00:21:16.380 a fun thing that fun tradition that will continue 00:21:16.380 --> 00:21:20.220 on. One that I've seen that. I think we're going 00:21:20.220 --> 00:21:23.259 to start it this year is called Christmas Eve 00:21:23.259 --> 00:21:27.579 boxes where you just wrap like, so we'll do pajamas 00:21:27.579 --> 00:21:31.119 this year. We'll each kid will get a like Christmas 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:34.240 book. So we have the Grinch for Lloyd and then 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:36.859 good night Christmas for Zeta. And then some 00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:39.220 of the other things I've seen as like ideas for 00:21:39.220 --> 00:21:41.730 Christmas Eve boxes is like. a movie to watch 00:21:41.730 --> 00:21:43.970 as a family and like a special snack or something 00:21:43.970 --> 00:21:45.849 like that. So that's like something to do on 00:21:45.849 --> 00:21:48.150 Christmas Eve. I love that. Um, since we don't 00:21:48.150 --> 00:21:50.390 really do a ton of movies with the kids yet, 00:21:50.450 --> 00:21:53.150 we'll probably won't do that this year. Um, but 00:21:53.150 --> 00:21:54.849 like in the future, I'm sure we'll do something 00:21:54.849 --> 00:21:57.369 like that. Um, so they have something to open 00:21:57.369 --> 00:21:59.190 on Christmas Eve and then they can, you know, 00:21:59.190 --> 00:22:01.210 open their pajamas and put them on. And then 00:22:01.210 --> 00:22:04.410 we have, we'll have special books to read. Yeah. 00:22:04.549 --> 00:22:05.890 That's really, I think we're going to start doing 00:22:05.890 --> 00:22:08.529 that this year. Cause yeah, I think. you already 00:22:08.529 --> 00:22:10.809 mentioned this with Cole or like this is the 00:22:10.809 --> 00:22:13.130 first year I think Lloyd understands what's going 00:22:13.130 --> 00:22:15.910 on. Like last year he was happy to be around 00:22:15.910 --> 00:22:18.309 his family. Yeah. And he was like definitely 00:22:18.309 --> 00:22:20.670 excited about his new toys, but not in the same 00:22:20.670 --> 00:22:22.809 way that he will be this year. Maybe a little 00:22:22.809 --> 00:22:25.990 more overstimulated than anything. Exactly. Yeah. 00:22:26.049 --> 00:22:30.009 Yeah. I am. I don't know entirely how we're going 00:22:30.009 --> 00:22:32.769 to do this, but I, I think being a Christian, 00:22:32.789 --> 00:22:37.329 like Jesus is obviously. the reason for christmas 00:22:37.329 --> 00:22:40.569 like the birth of jesus and i want to make sure 00:22:40.569 --> 00:22:44.150 that my kids grew up like focusing on that rather 00:22:44.150 --> 00:22:48.009 than the presence and like yes the presence and 00:22:48.009 --> 00:22:51.250 the family time is also great and important why 00:22:51.250 --> 00:22:53.890 do we do that but why are we why are we here 00:22:53.890 --> 00:22:56.289 why like what is the what is the reason for the 00:22:56.289 --> 00:23:01.839 season yeah but yeah i think like just like verbalizing 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:06.019 it more often and making sure that my kids know 00:23:06.019 --> 00:23:08.740 that and know why we are celebrating is really 00:23:08.740 --> 00:23:11.900 important. Um, I've seen families do like birthday 00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:14.619 cakes for Jesus on Christmas. I think that's 00:23:14.619 --> 00:23:18.680 really cute. Yeah. Yeah. Um, this is like kind 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:21.140 of, it's controversial for some people. I think 00:23:21.140 --> 00:23:24.279 we're not doing Santa and it was a little bit 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:26.740 of a debate between Stuart and I and partially 00:23:26.740 --> 00:23:29.319 cause like we had The reason he wanted to do 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:32.440 Santa, I didn't. The reasons he wanted to and 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:34.460 the reasons I didn't, we could, like, kind of 00:23:34.460 --> 00:23:36.579 figure out how to make it work. Yeah. So far, 00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:37.900 we're kind of like, we're just not going to do 00:23:37.900 --> 00:23:40.140 it. So for Stuart, he's like, I don't want our 00:23:40.140 --> 00:23:41.960 kids to be the kid that ruins it for other people. 00:23:42.099 --> 00:23:44.420 Yeah. Like, that's totally fair. That's true. 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:46.640 So we're still trying to figure out how to navigate 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:50.420 that. But also, like, I have a friend who grew 00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:53.720 up and they didn't do Santa. And she was like, 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:56.029 no, it was literally like. The whole thing is 00:23:56.029 --> 00:23:58.369 like, you know, Santa and Satan have the same 00:23:58.369 --> 00:24:00.730 letters, like that extreme. And I'm like, no, 00:24:00.789 --> 00:24:03.990 no, no, we're not doing that. Like for us, I 00:24:03.990 --> 00:24:05.509 think we're going to be like, Santa's a character. 00:24:05.529 --> 00:24:07.950 Like we watch the Santa Claus and we watch Elf 00:24:07.950 --> 00:24:10.029 and we, you know, well, like he's a character 00:24:10.029 --> 00:24:11.990 and some people pretend he's real and that's 00:24:11.990 --> 00:24:13.849 okay. Yeah. So I think we're going to try to 00:24:13.849 --> 00:24:16.980 like go that route and be like, hey. People pretend 00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:18.759 he's real, and that's totally fine if they do. 00:24:19.299 --> 00:24:21.240 And then the other thing for Stuart is, like, 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.880 I want Christmas to be magical. Yeah. And that's 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:26.799 one thing I remember as a kid is coming down, 00:24:26.900 --> 00:24:29.460 like, going up to bed on Christmas Eve, and there 00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:31.160 was, like, some presents under the tree. And 00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:32.880 it was, like, presents I wrapped and, like, you 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.420 know, presents for Grandma and Grandpa or whatever. 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:37.160 And then coming down, and it felt like there 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:40.200 was just a thousand presents. Yes. You know, 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:43.640 not that there always was. um but but in your 00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:46.140 head you went to bed with just very little and 00:24:46.140 --> 00:24:49.160 then wake up with yeah so i think so much more 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:50.779 even though we're not doing like the traditional 00:24:50.779 --> 00:24:53.339 santa thing that's one thing we're also doing 00:24:53.339 --> 00:24:55.559 this year is we're not going to put any of their 00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:59.599 presents under the tree until like our christmas 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:01.900 eve and they go to bed so then when lloyd comes 00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:04.539 downstairs it's like a magical experience where 00:25:04.539 --> 00:25:07.000 did all these things come from that's so fun 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.039 um but then yeah so for the reasons not to do 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:12.509 santa for me A big part of it is I'm like, I 00:25:12.509 --> 00:25:15.410 want to focus on like Jesus is more important 00:25:15.410 --> 00:25:18.089 than Santa. I've also heard lots of horror stories 00:25:18.089 --> 00:25:21.710 of people finding out Santa isn't real. And then 00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:24.049 this is like, I don't know if this is a weird 00:25:24.049 --> 00:25:26.750 one or not, but no offense to anyone who does 00:25:26.750 --> 00:25:28.390 Elf on the Shelf. I know lots of people do Elf 00:25:28.390 --> 00:25:30.329 on the Shelf. I can't, I can't do it. I think 00:25:30.329 --> 00:25:32.710 Elf on the Shelf is super creepy. Yeah. I have 00:25:32.710 --> 00:25:34.630 friends who like their family gets so much joy 00:25:34.630 --> 00:25:36.230 from it. If your family gets joy from it, I'm 00:25:36.230 --> 00:25:37.690 so happy for you. It just seems like a lot of 00:25:37.690 --> 00:25:41.000 work. It seems like a lot of work. The doll itself, 00:25:41.180 --> 00:25:44.660 honestly, I think is super creepy. Have you seen 00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:46.880 Snoop on a stoop, though? Yes, that's really 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:52.480 funny. Snoop Dogg, everybody. Yes. But the other 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.660 part of it for me is gifts aren't earned. That's 00:25:56.660 --> 00:25:59.059 a reward. Rewards are great, but they're their 00:25:59.059 --> 00:26:01.579 own thing. So I'm like, I want to try really 00:26:01.579 --> 00:26:05.440 hard that, like. Gifts are something special 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:07.359 that you're given just because of who you are. 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:10.220 Yeah. Not because you were a good kid or not. 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:14.940 And again, like going back to the Jesus piece 00:26:14.940 --> 00:26:17.339 of it is like, that's why we have Jesus. Like 00:26:17.339 --> 00:26:21.279 we didn't do anything. He came just because of 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:24.839 who we are. And again, rewards are great. Like 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:27.680 there's time and place for rewards. But yeah, 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:29.059 so I'm like, I don't want to treat Christmas 00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:31.180 gifts like a reward. Yeah. And I know that also 00:26:31.180 --> 00:26:35.009 puts a lot of burden on me. Because it is like 00:26:35.009 --> 00:26:37.769 super easy to be like, we're canceling Christmas 00:26:37.769 --> 00:26:40.470 when someone's not behaving. Yeah. So I'm like, 00:26:40.509 --> 00:26:42.289 I do know that like this is easier said than 00:26:42.289 --> 00:26:45.069 done to be like, I have to also actually go with 00:26:45.069 --> 00:26:47.910 it and be like, okay, we're not threatening taking 00:26:47.910 --> 00:26:49.829 away Christmas because that's not how this works. 00:26:50.190 --> 00:26:52.250 But I want them to know like the true meaning 00:26:52.250 --> 00:26:54.069 of gifts of like if someone gives you a gift, 00:26:54.130 --> 00:26:56.089 like honestly, you don't have to give anything 00:26:56.089 --> 00:26:57.910 in return. Like you should be grateful. You should 00:26:57.910 --> 00:27:01.089 say thank you. But like. gifts are freely given 00:27:01.089 --> 00:27:03.470 and anyone who's like, I gave that to you and 00:27:03.470 --> 00:27:05.029 then they're expecting something in return. That's 00:27:05.029 --> 00:27:07.009 not a gift. That's not how that works. Yeah. 00:27:07.269 --> 00:27:09.730 That's a really good perspective. So I just, 00:27:09.809 --> 00:27:13.769 I remember, so my family, um, was very, very, 00:27:13.769 --> 00:27:18.490 very big into Santa, at least my mom and stepdad 00:27:18.490 --> 00:27:20.869 and all of our, we would come out in the morning 00:27:20.869 --> 00:27:23.210 and all of the Santa gifts would be like, they 00:27:23.210 --> 00:27:25.589 would not be wrapped. So you knew that it was 00:27:25.589 --> 00:27:28.339 from Santa. And so it was usually the bigger 00:27:28.339 --> 00:27:32.579 things. So like a bike or a guitar or, you know, 00:27:32.579 --> 00:27:35.920 but I just, I remember like you have to be so 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:40.180 selfless almost in a sense of like knowing that 00:27:40.180 --> 00:27:42.859 your kids are not going to thank you for the 00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:46.440 gift. That is true. Yeah. And I like after, you 00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:48.460 know, when I found out Santa wasn't real, I cried. 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.519 Do you remember how it went down? Yeah. I remember 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.369 asking like. All of my siblings are older, so 00:27:54.369 --> 00:27:58.170 I remember asking them – or not asking them. 00:27:58.210 --> 00:28:00.869 They all knew that he was not real, and they 00:28:00.869 --> 00:28:04.269 were told to, like, keep pretending for me, for 00:28:04.269 --> 00:28:08.009 my sake. And I remember, like, it was for a while 00:28:08.009 --> 00:28:10.829 that I was like, oh, I don't think Santa's real. 00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:14.319 But I was like too afraid to ask because I didn't 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:16.839 want to find out the truth because I felt like 00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:19.779 it would ruin the magic for me. Yeah. But I remember 00:28:19.779 --> 00:28:21.839 like laying, I was laying in my bed and my mom 00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:23.599 was like tucking me in one night or something. 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:25.759 And I was like, mom, is Santa real? She's like, 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:30.299 honey. and then like tells me and then i just 00:28:30.299 --> 00:28:33.160 remember crying oh and it was like such a sad 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.900 thing oh i don't want to say i think this was 00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:39.779 last year yeah i think it was like 10 okay or 00:28:39.779 --> 00:28:41.640 something like that i feel like that's not super 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.880 crazy no okay but i'm pretty sure i was like 00:28:43.880 --> 00:28:46.640 the last of all my friends okay like i knew it 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:49.920 but i didn't like i didn't say it yeah you know 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.160 like i didn't i feel i didn't want to admit it 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.740 i feel like that's really common yeah it's like 00:28:55.069 --> 00:28:58.410 kids start to realize the truth and then they're 00:28:58.410 --> 00:29:01.170 like, I either want to hold on to it or I know 00:29:01.170 --> 00:29:03.670 a lot of kids are like, the magic goes away if 00:29:03.670 --> 00:29:05.809 I stop believing or the presents go away if I 00:29:05.809 --> 00:29:08.769 stop believing or whatever. Yeah. And so I think 00:29:08.769 --> 00:29:12.529 that it's funny because, I mean, everything would 00:29:12.529 --> 00:29:16.210 be labeled like from Santa to Laura, but it was 00:29:16.210 --> 00:29:18.930 my mom's handwriting, like very clearly. But 00:29:18.930 --> 00:29:21.829 I never was like. I knew it, but I was like, 00:29:21.910 --> 00:29:23.750 I'm not going to, I don't want to say anything 00:29:23.750 --> 00:29:26.430 because I also don't want my Santa gifts to go 00:29:26.430 --> 00:29:31.970 away. Exactly. Yeah. So I don't know. It'll be 00:29:31.970 --> 00:29:36.490 interesting how we incorporate because I do think 00:29:36.490 --> 00:29:39.710 we will do Santa. We haven't, like, I mean, we 00:29:39.710 --> 00:29:41.950 talked about Santa with Colt. I talked about 00:29:41.950 --> 00:29:44.650 the, he's on the naughty list right now. But 00:29:44.650 --> 00:29:48.089 like, I mean, he's got, it's still not working, 00:29:48.150 --> 00:29:50.490 you know, like. I mean, at this age, they don't 00:29:50.490 --> 00:29:52.930 really care anyways. And so I think this Christmas, 00:29:52.990 --> 00:29:55.390 I don't know if we'll do like Santa gifts. Yeah. 00:29:55.470 --> 00:29:58.569 This Christmas. When I think like where I'm at 00:29:58.569 --> 00:30:01.150 too is like, again, we'll be like, hey, this 00:30:01.150 --> 00:30:03.009 is a character. And then if in like a few years 00:30:03.009 --> 00:30:05.470 they're like, we also want to pretend Santa is 00:30:05.470 --> 00:30:08.309 real, then we can go from that. Yeah. You know, 00:30:08.309 --> 00:30:10.029 where it's like, I don't want it to be this thing 00:30:10.029 --> 00:30:11.869 where it's like, yeah, where it's like if they 00:30:11.869 --> 00:30:14.569 want to pretend and we like make it a thing. 00:30:14.750 --> 00:30:18.240 Yeah. Then. Then I'm down with that. Then that's 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:20.160 fun. Yeah, I think the most important part for 00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:22.180 us is, like, it's supposed to be a fun thing. 00:30:22.420 --> 00:30:27.660 Yeah. And, yeah, ultimately, like, Jesus is the 00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:30.519 reason we're celebrating. And I want to add more, 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:36.299 like, emphasis on Jesus than Santa. Yeah. And 00:30:36.299 --> 00:30:39.059 I don't know what that looks like yet other than 00:30:39.059 --> 00:30:42.390 just, like, verbalizing, like, you know. This 00:30:42.390 --> 00:30:44.369 is, you know, this is why we're here. We spent 00:30:44.369 --> 00:30:46.670 a thousand hours at church this weekend. Because 00:30:46.670 --> 00:30:49.430 we're celebrating the birth of Jesus. And yeah, 00:30:49.490 --> 00:30:52.390 so I think it's going to be interesting how we 00:30:52.390 --> 00:30:54.990 incorporate that as we continue living farther 00:30:54.990 --> 00:30:57.329 away from family. Because right now Christmas 00:30:57.329 --> 00:31:00.670 just feels so busy. Yeah. And it's like we're 00:31:00.670 --> 00:31:05.119 hopping around to all different houses. Everyone 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:08.779 wants to see us, which is so, so great, but also 00:31:08.779 --> 00:31:12.559 it does not feel like a quiet season for us right 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:18.680 now. What other things do you want to add or 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.579 put into practice? One of the things that I saw 00:31:21.579 --> 00:31:27.180 for getting presents for kids, kind of a philosophy, 00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:30.240 I guess, is getting something they want, something 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.380 they need, something to wear, and something to 00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:35.130 read. I've seen that, too. That's cool. I like 00:31:35.130 --> 00:31:39.529 that mostly because I think it helps me like 00:31:39.529 --> 00:31:41.829 kind of reel it in. Like it's super easy to try 00:31:41.829 --> 00:31:44.890 to find like a million different things. So I 00:31:44.890 --> 00:31:46.410 think we're going to try to start doing that 00:31:46.410 --> 00:31:50.150 a little bit more. What is it? Want, need, wear, 00:31:50.529 --> 00:31:53.049 read. Oh, that's cool. So we've already gotten 00:31:53.049 --> 00:31:55.490 them a bunch of books for us. We're like books 00:31:55.490 --> 00:31:58.500 are always fair game. Yeah. And then. We have 00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:00.180 other friends who do it and they're like, the 00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:02.680 way we also do it is like for something to wear. 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:05.400 It might be something like. that we wouldn't 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.299 normally buy them like it's more expensive or 00:32:08.299 --> 00:32:10.799 fancier you know something like that and then 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:12.299 same with the need where it's like we're not 00:32:12.299 --> 00:32:14.480 just like buying you your toothbrush you know 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.599 it's like something that like you do legitimately 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:18.759 need but maybe it's like a little bit more expensive 00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:20.960 like the nicer version of what you want you know 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:23.220 yeah it's a bike and it's a nicer bike or you 00:32:23.220 --> 00:32:26.000 know something like that that's good um like 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.599 which i like to like still kind of keep it magical 00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:31.160 and fun and again not turning into the thing 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:32.960 where it's like oh everything we buy for you 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:35.799 right now is a Christmas present. Well, I feel 00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.299 like too, like at least for the boys, they're 00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:40.779 getting so many toys, so many things from grandparents 00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:46.279 and aunts and uncles. And it's just so overstimulating 00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:50.200 already. Like they don't need more toys from, 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:54.039 from us. It's yeah. I'm, I want to focus more 00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:56.160 on like the, okay, what do you need for your 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.980 room? Like this year we put Colt in a big boy 00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:00.940 bed, but we still need a bed frame. So that's 00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:03.019 going to be his big Christmas gift is his bed 00:33:03.019 --> 00:33:06.430 frame. And so like things like that, like the, 00:33:06.529 --> 00:33:08.730 that fall under that category. We have tried 00:33:08.730 --> 00:33:12.809 really hard to limit toys from family. It worked 00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:15.430 better. How did you, how did you do that? So 00:33:15.430 --> 00:33:17.769 it worked better when we were in a small apartment. 00:33:17.789 --> 00:33:19.890 Cause we could be like, we literally don't have 00:33:19.890 --> 00:33:22.289 space. Yeah. And our house still isn't very big. 00:33:22.349 --> 00:33:24.250 So we still try to be like, Hey guys, like we 00:33:24.250 --> 00:33:26.470 actually do have limited space. And so we don't 00:33:26.470 --> 00:33:28.849 want a ton of toys. Thankfully our family has 00:33:28.849 --> 00:33:31.309 just like. been fairly respectful from the get 00:33:31.309 --> 00:33:33.950 -go of like hey we're kind of being picky about 00:33:33.950 --> 00:33:36.630 our toys the things that i have found have been 00:33:36.630 --> 00:33:39.750 helpful one have a few things that are fair game 00:33:39.750 --> 00:33:43.269 so like we've told our family clothes and books 00:33:43.269 --> 00:33:46.170 you can never buy us enough yeah like we might 00:33:46.170 --> 00:33:48.369 tell you hey don't buy any more clothes in this 00:33:48.369 --> 00:33:51.269 size you know buy the next size up or something 00:33:51.269 --> 00:33:54.089 like that yeah but kids are always growing kids 00:33:54.089 --> 00:33:55.630 always need more clothes they're always getting 00:33:55.630 --> 00:33:58.460 stains on clothes you know like close her for 00:33:58.460 --> 00:34:01.160 a game and then books like I mean if you go upstairs 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:02.819 we have so many stacks of books in our house 00:34:02.819 --> 00:34:04.619 right now and it's a little bit crazy yeah but 00:34:04.619 --> 00:34:07.339 Lloyd loves them and like that's something that's 00:34:07.339 --> 00:34:09.699 super important to us is you know reading and 00:34:09.699 --> 00:34:13.059 it's really fun so yeah those are the two things 00:34:13.059 --> 00:34:16.679 that we've been like hey like kind of no restrictions 00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:20.420 on yeah and if it's something that like I mean 00:34:20.420 --> 00:34:21.860 I'm not really worried with our family but if 00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:23.920 it was like someone got us a book that we thought 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:25.800 was like kind of weird and we're not going to 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:28.929 read that to our kid I feel less bad about, like, 00:34:28.929 --> 00:34:30.610 disappearing it. Because it's like, oh, you spent, 00:34:30.670 --> 00:34:33.889 like, $7 on this book. Whereas toys get so expensive. 00:34:34.150 --> 00:34:36.309 Oh, gosh, yeah. So that's been one big thing. 00:34:36.409 --> 00:34:39.809 The other thing is people ask us what they want. 00:34:39.929 --> 00:34:43.730 And so I have Amazon lists for both kids that 00:34:43.730 --> 00:34:46.409 throughout the year I put stuff on. That's smart. 00:34:46.590 --> 00:34:48.269 And then you send the link out. And then I just 00:34:48.269 --> 00:34:50.329 send the link out. So that way it's kind of like, 00:34:50.409 --> 00:34:52.789 here are, like, pre -approved toys. Yeah. Like, 00:34:52.829 --> 00:34:55.239 I hate being like, we want to approve. toys yeah 00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:57.900 but also it's gonna be in my house yes the toys 00:34:57.900 --> 00:34:59.960 that we've been okay with people buying are the 00:34:59.960 --> 00:35:02.980 Montessori yes toys we've kind of said that like 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:05.199 anything Montessori for the most part we're okay 00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:07.599 with yeah yeah it's really just some of those 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.260 Montessori toys have really tiny pieces to it 00:35:10.260 --> 00:35:12.199 some of them do yeah yeah which I'm surprised 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:14.780 with but so yeah those are kind of some limits 00:35:14.780 --> 00:35:17.139 and then I also think we're lucky with our family 00:35:17.139 --> 00:35:19.380 because I know some people are like I could give 00:35:19.380 --> 00:35:21.880 my parents all those. My mom goes to town on 00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:25.559 the toys. Yeah. Yeah. And now we're traveling 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.619 back with like, we usually bring an extra suitcase 00:35:28.619 --> 00:35:30.900 at Christmas. Just for. Yeah, just for gifts 00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:33.739 because otherwise we can't bring it home. But. 00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:35.980 Yeah. That is the other side of it too is like, 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.199 yeah, I've had our family ask like, okay, what 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:41.119 do the boys need for Christmas? And I really, 00:35:41.139 --> 00:35:44.079 I am trying to answer like. you know clothes 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:48.699 shoes are a big one and books but i'm like it's 00:35:48.699 --> 00:35:50.940 so hard to travel gift cards are great for us 00:35:50.940 --> 00:35:55.099 yeah amazon is really great target walmart yeah 00:35:55.099 --> 00:35:58.400 the amazon list thing has helped me so much yeah 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.659 that's good yeah anytime someone asks me i'm 00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:03.500 like even if i have like specific ideas in mind 00:36:03.500 --> 00:36:06.139 i forget every single thing that yeah and either 00:36:06.139 --> 00:36:08.800 of my kids have ever shown interest in for sure 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:12.590 and since we don't just like buy them toys all 00:36:12.590 --> 00:36:15.250 the time then i'll be like oh this is something 00:36:15.250 --> 00:36:17.820 that i noticed like We were at a friend's house 00:36:17.820 --> 00:36:19.679 or something like that. And they showed interest 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.059 in. So, you know, maybe something like this. 00:36:22.219 --> 00:36:24.320 Yeah. It's so hard with toys too when they're 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.340 so young. It's like they're going to pay attention 00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:28.800 to it for like 2 .5 seconds and then move on. 00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:31.360 It's hard to justify like, oh, you're going to 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:33.719 spend $40 on this toy that they're going to look 00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:36.780 at for maybe a day. Yeah. So we've tried to be 00:36:36.780 --> 00:36:38.780 intentional about that too. Like, okay, what 00:36:38.780 --> 00:36:41.280 are things that like have shown a continued interest? 00:36:41.300 --> 00:36:45.590 Like Lloyd, his two presents this year. Last 00:36:45.590 --> 00:36:48.730 year, Stuart made him a Montessori arch for climbing. 00:36:48.929 --> 00:36:51.650 The coolest thing ever. This year, he's making 00:36:51.650 --> 00:36:55.309 a slide to go onto it. So fun. We're like, this 00:36:55.309 --> 00:36:57.789 boy would go down slides all day long. All day 00:36:57.789 --> 00:37:00.110 long. So hopefully he really, really loves it. 00:37:00.329 --> 00:37:03.739 And then. He's continued to show interest in 00:37:03.739 --> 00:37:05.960 construction vehicles. So we got him like one 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:07.860 of those sets of a bunch of construction vehicles. 00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:11.420 Cool. That hopefully he'll definitely love it. 00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:12.980 So you're on top of it. You're already shopping. 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:15.480 I mean, sort of Christmas shopping. I mean, Stuart 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:18.119 already came up with that. Yeah. I did buy a 00:37:18.119 --> 00:37:20.480 bunch of books, but they were on sale. Nice. 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.579 Yeah. And then I have no idea what to get Zeta. 00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:24.880 Yeah. That's hard. The babies are the hard ones. 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:27.260 It's so hard. It's like clothes and like things 00:37:27.260 --> 00:37:29.559 to chew on. Yeah. I'm like, do I just get her 00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:33.539 like one of those? door stoppers that goes that's 00:37:33.539 --> 00:37:38.239 all she wants to play with honestly i i'm pretty 00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:41.820 sure when colt was for at least his first christmas 00:37:41.820 --> 00:37:43.920 he was like four months old i don't even think 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.760 we bought him anything to be honest what for 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:51.219 lloyd's first christmas we got uh like a splat 00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:53.019 mat so like one of those things that you put 00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:56.340 under yeah uh the high chair yeah i'm one of 00:37:56.340 --> 00:37:59.250 those And there were like a few things in that 00:37:59.250 --> 00:38:01.269 same vein where it's like, this is just something 00:38:01.269 --> 00:38:04.610 that you need anyway. So you're going to unwrap 00:38:04.610 --> 00:38:08.210 it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I think for Colt this year, 00:38:08.369 --> 00:38:11.550 my mom is getting him. He's really obsessed with 00:38:11.550 --> 00:38:14.289 our car keys and like trying to, but he tries 00:38:14.289 --> 00:38:16.909 to unlock our front door with the car key. Oh, 00:38:16.929 --> 00:38:20.650 okay. And so my mom bought him like one of the 00:38:20.650 --> 00:38:24.039 Montessori like. locks and keys so it comes with 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:25.739 like eight different keys and eight different 00:38:25.739 --> 00:38:27.780 locks and then nick can like try them all oh 00:38:27.780 --> 00:38:29.380 that's and i'm like hopefully that will keep 00:38:29.380 --> 00:38:32.900 him entertained for yeah a while he like yeah 00:38:32.900 --> 00:38:35.079 if he if there's a toy like that it can usually 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:38.139 keep him entertained the one thing so we we decorated 00:38:38.139 --> 00:38:41.119 for christmas i got like those little um stickies 00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:43.820 for the windows that oh yeah like merry christmas 00:38:43.820 --> 00:38:46.360 the like jelly ones yeah the jelly ones and um 00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:49.690 i put it up on the window yesterday and I mean, 00:38:49.690 --> 00:38:51.610 he does not know how to spell Merry Christmas, 00:38:51.690 --> 00:38:53.989 but he loves just, he moves it from one window 00:38:53.989 --> 00:38:56.389 to the next and he's like good for like 30 minutes. 00:38:56.409 --> 00:38:58.230 There are some of those activities that you're 00:38:58.230 --> 00:39:02.010 like. It was literally $1 .50 at Hobby Lobby. 00:39:02.030 --> 00:39:04.550 Yep. I was like, sick. That was the best purchase 00:39:04.550 --> 00:39:06.769 of my life. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes that's the 00:39:06.769 --> 00:39:10.889 move. Yeah. It'll be fun to, I don't know, with 00:39:10.889 --> 00:39:12.670 a two -year -old this year, it'll be fun to. 00:39:12.969 --> 00:39:16.420 Yeah. see christmas and through his eyes and 00:39:16.420 --> 00:39:18.519 oh one thing i think we're gonna do this year 00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:21.320 is have lloyd pick out a gift for zeta so like 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.340 one of us will take him shopping and just like 00:39:24.340 --> 00:39:26.539 what do you want to get yeah what do you want 00:39:26.539 --> 00:39:29.139 to get zeta do you think he's gonna pick something 00:39:29.139 --> 00:39:32.320 that he likes i don't know it'll be interesting 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.119 to see if he's like she's gonna want this construction 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:38.619 vehicle right which also we've kind of talked 00:39:38.619 --> 00:39:40.599 about it we're like i think we need to get zeta 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:44.079 a toy car because she wants whatever lloyd has 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.639 yeah and we're trying to like find the balance 00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:50.340 of letting lloyd have his own stuff and like 00:39:50.340 --> 00:39:52.360 hey you don't have to share this but you also 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:56.139 have to be nice and yes and all the cars in our 00:39:56.139 --> 00:39:58.380 house have been gifted to him in some capacity 00:39:58.380 --> 00:40:02.170 so i'm like i it's fair that you don't want to 00:40:02.170 --> 00:40:04.309 share that yeah but you have to get Zeta something 00:40:04.309 --> 00:40:06.469 so I'm kind of thinking we're like we need to 00:40:06.469 --> 00:40:08.110 have a toy that we're like yeah a toy car that 00:40:08.110 --> 00:40:10.630 we're like this is Zeta's toy car you can't take 00:40:10.630 --> 00:40:12.969 it from her like maybe I'm just setting myself 00:40:12.969 --> 00:40:16.969 up for absolute disaster but if it's one he really 00:40:16.969 --> 00:40:20.429 likes yeah maybe one he already has or something 00:40:20.429 --> 00:40:23.469 like that I don't know like a duplicate um yeah 00:40:23.469 --> 00:40:25.690 so that way we can be like this is Zeta's car 00:40:25.690 --> 00:40:28.280 like Then when she has Lightning McQueen and 00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:29.460 you want Lightning McQueen back, you're like, 00:40:29.539 --> 00:40:32.219 okay, go get Zeta's car and get back. And trade. 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.719 And trade, yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:39.300 because consistently if she has something in 00:40:39.300 --> 00:40:41.760 the house that he wants and he wants to take 00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:43.780 it back, then we'll be like, okay, can you find 00:40:43.780 --> 00:40:45.900 something for her to play with? And sometimes 00:40:45.900 --> 00:40:47.920 he shares one of his toys, which is really sweet. 00:40:48.099 --> 00:40:49.920 Yeah. And sometimes he hands her like a wooden 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:51.920 spoon. Yeah. Which I'm like, she doesn't care. 00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:56.099 She's still happy. Yeah. So. Yeah, so I don't 00:40:56.099 --> 00:40:57.880 know if he'll find something. That'll be interesting. 00:40:58.300 --> 00:40:59.960 You'll have to report back on that. Yeah, we 00:40:59.960 --> 00:41:03.500 definitely will. Yeah, yeah. I love that idea. 00:41:03.539 --> 00:41:06.500 I think I might try to do that, and then we'll 00:41:06.500 --> 00:41:09.780 just order something for Cruz to give to Colt 00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:12.960 or something like that. That's fun. I'd love 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.320 if you guys could share your traditions with 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:20.199 us and let us know what you guys do. I love hearing 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:23.380 the weird, obscure traditions that people... 00:41:23.380 --> 00:41:25.840 I can't even think of one right now, but... I 00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:28.380 know our weird family... It's not like the Simpson 00:41:28.380 --> 00:41:31.840 one, but my parents, the Sowilla one. So they 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:35.300 have this set of mugs that are Next Computer 00:41:35.300 --> 00:41:37.880 branded, which no one knows what Next Computer 00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:41.469 is because it was... in existence for like two 00:41:41.469 --> 00:41:44.289 years in the 90s and it was when steve jobs got 00:41:44.289 --> 00:41:46.989 fired from apple he started next computer and 00:41:46.989 --> 00:41:51.289 my dad went to the factory or facility or something 00:41:51.289 --> 00:41:52.769 like that at one point time and they had a bunch 00:41:52.769 --> 00:41:55.530 of merch so he had he got next computer mugs 00:41:55.530 --> 00:41:57.650 and for some reason those are our christmas mugs 00:41:57.650 --> 00:41:59.949 that's don't know why they're not there's just 00:41:59.949 --> 00:42:02.210 like enough for everybody to use no there's only 00:42:02.210 --> 00:42:06.300 four Yeah. They're not Christmas branded in any 00:42:06.300 --> 00:42:08.460 capacity. But you, is that the only time you 00:42:08.460 --> 00:42:11.139 guys use them? Yeah. That's great. Do they live 00:42:11.139 --> 00:42:13.300 with the Christmas decorations? That's amazing. 00:42:13.420 --> 00:42:15.980 I love that so much. And we drink eggnog out 00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:18.159 of them. So I don't know where this came from. 00:42:18.940 --> 00:42:21.340 Oh, I love that. So that's our like weird family 00:42:21.340 --> 00:42:23.500 tradition. I don't think we have. Oh, other than 00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:25.760 on Christmas day, we always eat sandwiches for 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:28.719 lunch. That's a good move though. Yeah. But it's 00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:31.889 like. really intricate sandwiches so like we 00:42:31.889 --> 00:42:35.130 get like fancy meats and like we have all the 00:42:35.130 --> 00:42:37.929 different spreads and like all the different 00:42:37.929 --> 00:42:41.989 cheeses great bread like i love it just it's 00:42:41.989 --> 00:42:44.730 not just the traditional like i don't know so 00:42:44.730 --> 00:42:47.949 that's fun but all right well yeah let us know 00:42:47.949 --> 00:42:49.769 what your guys traditions are and what you guys 00:42:49.769 --> 00:42:52.550 are thinking for christmas yeah do we want to 00:42:52.550 --> 00:42:56.280 hop into our wins of the week yeah Okay. I can 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:59.699 go first. Okay. So we had just like a little 00:42:59.699 --> 00:43:02.639 date night last night, which meant that my mom 00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:06.360 put Zeta down for bed. And I think this is the 00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.039 first time she's been put down for bed without 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:11.800 Stuart or either. That's awesome. We've had one 00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:14.519 or the other, but not without both of us. And 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:17.099 I know it was a little bit of a rough go, but 00:43:17.099 --> 00:43:20.699 she was asleep when we got home. And then she 00:43:20.699 --> 00:43:23.019 also slept way better last night. I shouldn't 00:43:23.019 --> 00:43:27.969 say this. yeah then she has all week but then 00:43:27.969 --> 00:43:30.489 when we woke up she was just so snuggly yeah 00:43:30.489 --> 00:43:32.929 so sweet it was like kind of clear that she missed 00:43:32.929 --> 00:43:36.010 us and like it's like i've been gone for so long 00:43:36.010 --> 00:43:39.869 yeah i won't do that again yeah she just like 00:43:39.869 --> 00:43:42.429 kept putting her head on like our chests and 00:43:42.429 --> 00:43:45.050 was so happy that we were home and that's the 00:43:45.050 --> 00:43:48.570 best just so sweet that's cute that's cute um 00:43:48.570 --> 00:43:53.230 okay my win very short and simple. So Cruz started 00:43:53.230 --> 00:43:57.130 saying Dada. But I'm mad he didn't say Mama. 00:43:57.269 --> 00:43:59.909 Of course. Of course. Colt said Mama first. But 00:43:59.909 --> 00:44:02.170 it's more just like, I don't think he knows what 00:44:02.170 --> 00:44:04.170 he's saying, but it's like the Dada, Dada, Dada, 00:44:04.269 --> 00:44:06.989 Dada. And Michael's like, I'll take it. He said 00:44:06.989 --> 00:44:10.150 it. He's looking at me. He said it. And it's 00:44:10.150 --> 00:44:12.590 just really cute. And I can't believe we're already 00:44:12.590 --> 00:44:15.170 at that phase. I know. It's going so fast. I 00:44:15.170 --> 00:44:17.110 showed Zeta a picture of Stuart while he was 00:44:17.110 --> 00:44:19.170 at work and I was like, who's that? He said Dada. 00:44:19.349 --> 00:44:21.480 And then... I got her to do it a second time. 00:44:21.739 --> 00:44:24.280 Never again. Yeah. He comes home. I'm like, Zeta, 00:44:24.340 --> 00:44:28.780 who's that? She's going to be stubborn. Yep. 00:44:28.940 --> 00:44:30.960 Love it. I'll show her another picture. Nothing. 00:44:31.059 --> 00:44:33.219 But I was like, I swear this happened. No one 00:44:33.219 --> 00:44:35.659 else witnessed it, but I swear it happened. I'm 00:44:35.659 --> 00:44:38.099 not delusional. Or maybe I am. I don't know. 00:44:38.219 --> 00:44:40.400 I don't know. Well, thanks for tuning in, guys. 00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:42.539 Hope you guys have a great Christmas with your 00:44:42.539 --> 00:44:45.699 families. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. I hope 00:44:45.699 --> 00:44:48.940 that your kids, yeah, just have a magical Christmas 00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:51.679 season. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Thanks for listening. 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:54.539 We'll see you next week. Like, not next week. 00:44:54.619 --> 00:44:57.039 Oh, nope. We'll see you in three weeks. Three 00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:01.440 weeks. Bye. Bye. Well, that's enough oversharing 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:04.079 for today. If you enjoyed hanging out with us, 00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:06.199 hit subscribe so you don't miss the next round 00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:08.880 of chaos. And if you're listening while hiding 00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:10.760 in the bathroom from your kids, no judgment. 00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:13.380 We see you. Thanks for joining us on No Manual 00:45:13.380 --> 00:45:17.380 Momcast, where motherhood is messy. At least 00:45:17.380 --> 00:45:20.889 we can laugh about it together. Thank you.